Caramelized Banana Bread with Browned Butter Glaze

Ingredients

• 0.8 teaspoon baking soda 
• 3 medium bananas ripe sliced
• 4 tablespoons butter divided softened
• 3 tablespoons canola oil 
• 0.8 cup brown sugar dark packed
• 2 large eggs 
• 0.5 cup buttermilk fat-free
• 2 cups flour all-purpose
• 2 teaspoons half-and-half 
• 0.3 cup powdered sugar 
• 2 tablespoons gold rum 
• 0.5 teaspoon salt 

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• sauce pan
• oven
• knife
• whisk
• wire rack
• blender
• loaf pan
• measuring cup

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 35
2. Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
3. Add brown sugar and bananas; saut 4 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. Remove from heat; cool 10 minutes.
5. Place banana mixture in a large bowl. Beat with a mixer at medium speed until smooth.
6. Combine buttermilk and next 3 ingredients (through eggs). Weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.
7. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt.
8. Add flour mixture and buttermilk mixture alternately to banana mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat at low speed just until combined. Scrape batter into a 9 x 5-inch metal loaf pan coated with baking spray.
9. Bake at 350 for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs clinging. Cool for 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack.
10. Remove bread from pan, and cool on wire rack.
11. Melt remaining 1 tablespoon butter in a small, heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook 3 minutes or until butter begins to brown; remove from heat.
12. Add powdered sugar and half-and-half, stirring with a whisk until smooth.
13. Drizzle glaze over bread.
14. Let stand until glaze sets.